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RECORD    .•\ND    GUIDE





September 9, 19^





Realty  Board  to  Hold  Annual Convention at Albany

Taxation Problems, Git}- and Suburban Planning and Operation by New License
Law, Topics for Discussion October 19, 20 and 21





THE 19th Annual Convention of the New York State Asso¬
ciation of Real Estate Boards will be held in .\Ibany
October 19, 20 and 21 under the auspices of the Albany
Realty Board. The association is composed of twenty-eight
local real estate boards in the principal cities of the State, the
Metropolitan district being represented by the Westchester
County, Long Island and Staten Island real estate boards.
H. H. Garfield of Rochester is president of the State realty
organization, and J. W. Doolittle of Douglaston is one of the
vice-presidents.

The principal subjects for discussion at the .Albany conven¬
tion will be the State taxation program to be considered at
the next session of the legislature; city and suburban plan¬
ning; and the operation of the recently enacted real estate
license law. Many other subjects of importance to real estate
brokers will be considered and the visiting delegates will be
extensively entertained by the Albany realtors.

The realty association's Committee on Taxation, headed by
James Frank of the Long Island real estate board, has been
carefully considering the proposed plan for taxation submitted





by the Joint Legislative Committee on Taxation and will recom¬
mend definite action on the part of the local real estate boards.
-\ committee on City and Suburban Planning, of which Charles
\V. Leavitt of New York City is chairman, will recommend
effective, mandatory legislation for city and county planning of
arterial highways throughout New York. Judge John A. Bar-
hite of Rochester, a former member of the State Public Service
Commission, is chairman of the Committee on Public Service
which will recommend action by the public service commis¬
sions with respect to the development of real estate subdi¬
visions  and to transportation.

.•\ plan is to be developed at the Annual Convention which
will enable the local real estate boards to make the license
law effective in their respective communities. All local boards
now have committees on ethics which are striving to develop
and maintain the Code of Ethics adopted by the State realty
association in the practice of real estate business.

Permanent headquarters for the State .Association of Real
Estate Boards are to be established in Albany October first.
Meade C. Dobson, Executive Secretary of the State Associa¬
tion, will be in charge.





New York State Title Men Beturn from Xational Convention





THE New York delegation to the sixteenth national con¬
vention of the .American Association of Title Men held
at Cedar Point, O., .August 29, 30 and 31, has returned.
The New York City members were Henry R. Chittick, Solicitor
of the Lawyers Title and Trust Company; Cyril H. Burdett,
\ice-President of the New York Title and Mortgage Company;
Fred P. Condit, \'ice-President of the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, and S. H. Evans, Secretary of the New York
Board of Title L^nderwriters.

From upstate the delegates were Henry S. Nichols, Secre¬
tary of the Central New York Abstract and Title Company of
L'tica; George .A. Loewenberg of the Syracuse branch of the
same company; DeLancy Bentley of the Abstract Guarantee
Company of Rochester, and Herbert J. Feehan of Seneca Falls,
President  of the New York  State Title Association.

Frank P. Doherty of Los .Angeles retired as Executive Sec¬
retary of the association. His successor is Richard Hall of
the Hall Abstract Company, Hutchinson, Kansas. Fred P.
Condit of New York retired as President of the title insurance
section.    Mark Brewer, newly-elected President of the Ameri¬





can .Association of Title Men, is on his way to New York
by motor.    While here he will consult with title men.

The complete report of the convention is being printed and
copies may be obtained by applying to the Secretary of the
New York State Title .Association, 149 Broadway, New York.

-At the convention Mr. Chittick acted as chairman of the
Committees on Resolutions and Legislation. Mr. Burdett rep¬
resented the State on the Committee on Nominations. The
convention, adopted a resolution proposed by the New York
State delegation, previously adopted at the convention of the
New Vork State Title Association which was held at Hobart
College, Geneva, op June 23 last, urging Congress to pass the
Calder-Graham bill permitting joining the United States of
America as a party defendant in an action in Federal and State
courts, in certain actions affecting title to real property. The
object of this legislation is to cure the situation created by
the multiplicity of Federal liens on account of the Internal
Revenue .Act. Federal Inheritance Tax and the National Pro¬
hibition Laws frequently resulting in the freezing of real
estate  titles.





Perfecting Organization to Check Coal Profiteering





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and those scheduled to reach here as late as October. The
movement into New York is proceeding at the rate of about
100,000 tons weekly. Last week seventeen coal carriers arrived
with 97,730 tons.

Prices for domestic bituminous have dropped to about $7.80
a ton at the seaboard, compared with the price of $8.50 to
$10 a ton at which Welsh coal can be laid down here. This
indicates that the movement across seas will be discontinued
with the arrival of cargoes under charter. Several charters
have been cancelled in view of the lower prices of domestic
coal here.

.A partial survey of cellar stocks of coal in one and two-family
h;:uses hss been made in Brooklyn, Cellar bins in 11.613 houses
Wire inspected and only 1.237 found to have any anthracite coal
in reserve. The total tonnage of the 1.237 homes was estimated
at 2.5C.IK whereas the requirements of all the houses inspected, based
on a yearly consumption of between eight and ten tons, are about
104,517 tons.

Instructions to take immediate measures to enlist the co-opera¬
tion of all  shippers and receivers of  freight on the  Pennsylvania





Railroad System, with the object of getting the maximum of work
o"t of e-ich coal car. were issued yesterday by W. \\". .Atterbury,
vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in charge of opera¬
tion. Directions to the four regional vice-presidents of the Penn¬
sylvania Railroad said:

"Coal cars must be kept moving to and from the mines faster
than ever liL-forc. W'e must get more service out of every car
than has evor before been attempted. To make success possible,
loading and unloading must be done in absolute minimum time,
and every one using coal equipment must be made to realize the
ivroral duty of releasing the cars as quickly as possible in order that
they may be returned to the mines for more coal with the least
possible delay."

The Xew York Central Railroad, it is reported, has decided to
substitute fuel oil for coal for the firing of the boilers in the com¬
pany's big electric power house at Yonkers. The Yoii'.:ers plant
-upplies the power for train operation in the Central's electrified
zone. It is understood that the change will be in the nature of a
tc^t and if successful may be extended to the other power plants
of the road. The plan calls for the installation of the oil burners
immediately, the work to be completed within a few weeks.